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Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
Georgian artists depicted the scenes they witnessed with creative license, that influenced Great Britain’s self-image as an imperial power.
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.
Nearly four centuries after the Batavia wrecked, a new study about its precious cargo shows that stories can indeed be written in stone.
No huge stadium spectacle, no royal fanfare – yet Glasgow’s opening ceremony made a big statement.
Tired colonial tropes paint Africans as untamed, unrestrained, and lacking in intelligence.
Now as then, the US supported forces that wanted to change the political situation in Venezuela.
France’s ethnically diverse squad reflects the nation’s multi-faceted history: its colonial heritage, migration patterns and the French Football Federation’s training policy that dates back to the 1990s.
The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
Chad’s language policy has inherent potential for conflict.
William Adams was convinced that solar energy could change the world. The problem was, he needed more sun to demonstrate it.
Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
In this extract from his newly published essay collection, the author traces the imperial British origins of a quintessential Kiwi chore.
A labour and political ecology expert looks back at imperialistic logic and how chemical fertilisers have repeatedly served as strategic objectives and weapons, particularly in wartime.
Aboriginal communities have observed the night sky for millennia. But they face a growing threat – light pollution.
Tropes against African Indigenous communities linger and continue to shape conservation, which has led to “protective” and often punitive regulations.
Long-standing Christian narratives about Islam continue to inform political language, argues a sociologist of Islam.
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lakehead University
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Professor in Political Science, University of Freiburg
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Head of Research Programme, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Associate Professor Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Curator & Section Head, Oceania, The British Museum
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Professor, Department of Archaeology and Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town